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title: "Tesla: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company."
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type: Organization
wikidata: Q478214
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.
website: https://www.tesla.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Tesla

> Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company.

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## Facts

- Category: Autonomous vehicles
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2003-07-01
- Headquarters: Austin
- Status: public
- Website: https://www.tesla.com/
- Employees: 140,473 (as of 2023-12-31)
- Industries: automotive industry, solar industry, battery industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/Tesla
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesla-motors
- github: https://github.com/teslamotors
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5WjFrtBdufl6CZojX3D8dQ
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100057777034735
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teslamotors

## Key people

- Marc Tarpenning, founder (American entrepreneur)
- Martin Eberhard, founder (American engineer and business executive)
- Elon Musk, chief executive (American businessman (born 1971)), since 2008-10-01
- Robyn Denholm, chair (Australian businesswoman, chairwoman of Tesla, Inc.), since 2018-11-01
- James Murdoch, board member (British media executive (born 1972)), since 2017-07-13
- Robyn Denholm, board member (Australian businesswoman, chairwoman of Tesla, Inc.), since 2014-01-01
- Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, board member (American business executive), since 2018-12-27
- Joe Gebbia, board member (American businessman and a co-founder of Airbnb), since 2022-09-25
- J. B. Straubel, board member (co-founder of Tesla Motors), since 2023-05-16
- Ira Ehrenpreis, board member (founder and managing partner of DBL Partners), since 2007-01-01
- Kimbal Musk, board member (South African-Canadian-American entrepreneur and restaurateur (born 1972)), since 2004-01-01
- Elon Musk, board member (American businessman (born 1971)), since 2004-01-01
- Andrej Karpathy (Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986))
- Chris Lattner (American software developer)
- Jim Keller (American microprocessor engineer)
- J. B. Straubel (co-founder of Tesla Motors)
- Arnnon Geshuri (American business executive)
- Shivon Zilis (Canadian technology executive and project director at Neuralink)
- Deepak Ahuja (financial executive at Ford and Tesla)
- Jerome Guillen (automotive manufacturing executive)
- Boryana Straubel (Bulgarian business executive (1983-2021))
- Zach Kirkhorn (American businessman)
- Ziwe Fumudoh (American comedian and comic writer)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2018-11-20: Form D, USD 20 million sold of a USD 20 million offering, 1 investor ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000128825718000026/))

## Revenue

- undated: USD 7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 11.8 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 21.5 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 24.6 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 31.5 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 53.8 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 81.5 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 96.8 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 97.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 94.8 billion (SEC filing)
- 2010-01-01: USD 116.7 million (Wikidata)
- 2011-01-01: USD 204.2 million (Wikidata)
- 2012-01-01: USD 413.3 million (Wikidata)
- 2013-12-31: USD 2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: USD 3.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 11.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 21.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 24.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 31.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-12-31: USD 53.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 81.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: USD 96.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2024-01-01: USD 97.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2025-01-01: USD 94.8 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: [SolarCity](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-solarcity.md), [Tesla Automation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-tesla-automation.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Tesla, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-tesla#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q478214, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%2C_Inc.
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001318605

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